Video: Arshad family caught on camera

THEY look a happy family - within a month they had been brutally murdered. This webcam footage released by the police shows Rahan Arshad playing with his children, Adam, 11, Abbas, eight, and six-year-old Henna at their home on Turves Road in Cheadle Hulme last year.

THEY look a happy family - within a month they had been brutally murdered. This webcam footage released by the police shows Rahan Arshad playing with his children, Adam, 11, Abbas, eight, and six-year-old Henna at their home on Turves Road in Cheadle Hulme last year.

They take it in turns to pull faces. Henna does a dance. Abbas makes rude noises with his arm-pit and holds up a teddy bear to the camera.

Adam gets to grips with the new laptop that daddy has just bought.

Mum Uzma is speaking on her mobile phone loudly in Urdu.

Even dad looks happy and pleased. And perhaps he is, briefly.

He had bought his children the new laptop with a webcam as part of a lavish spending spree in which he also bought a £30,000 BMW and jewellery which he claimed were birthday presents for his wife.

The purchases were part of an attempted reconciliation that would end in murder.

Within a month, Arshad had clubbed them all to death with a rounders bat.